Protection of Lijiang River among top priorities of local plan
Guilin in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region is boosting green growth and prioritizing the preservation of the Lijiang River in its sustainable development plan, local officials said.
“Guilin’s core competitiveness lies in the integration of ecology, culture and tourism, and it’s all centered on the Lijiang River,” said Zhou Jiabin, Party secretary of Guilin.
To protect the Lijiang River, the autonomous region issued the Guilin Lijiang River Ecological Protection and Rehabilitation Project Plan (2019-25) to restore the entire basin and manage projects in landscape, forest, field, lake and grass.
There are 147 key projects with…